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Tag Archives: racism
Harry Edwards on fighting for black athletes and coaches, whether they like it or not
in African American Studies, Olympic history, politics, sports history
Tagged activism, college sports, Harry Edwards, Olympic history, racism, Revolt of the Black Athlete, sports
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An excerpt from the new introduction to The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary Edition, by Harry Edwards. I believe that over the last fifty years, the facts, the relationships, and the conclusions drawn from them as portrayed in the … Continue reading
Release Party: The Loyal West, by Matthew E. Stanley
in African American Studies, american history, Illinois / regional, military history
Tagged Civil War, midwest, racism
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A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War–era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West—a myth rooted in regional and … Continue reading
Release Party: May Irwin, by Sharon Ammen
in African American Studies, biography, music
Tagged American music, May Irwin, racism, women gender and sexuality studies, women singers
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May Irwin reigned as America’s queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine pop culture phenomenon, Irwin conquered the legitimate stage, composed song lyrics, and parlayed her celebrity into success as a cookbook author, suffragette, … Continue reading
Four Quotes: from Spacializing Blackness, by Rashad Shabazz
in African American Studies, Chicago, law
Tagged geography, incarceration, masculinity, prison, racism, Rashad Shabazz, Spacializing Blackness
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A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous—and ordinary—ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse … Continue reading
Q&A with Afro-Paradise author Christen A. Smith
in anthropology, author commentary, authors, Brazil, Latin American Studies
Tagged Afro-Paradise, Brazil, Christen A. Smith, racism, violence
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Christen A. Smith is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin. Below she answers questions about her book Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil. Q: You first traveled to Salvador in … Continue reading